Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 2 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 3 | Did you ever hear them talk about them smuggling the whisky through the glen ? |
| 4 | You were right about them operatin' an outside patrol , as y'kin see . |
| 5 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 6 | Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ? |
| 7 | Well he is worried about them having an accident with it but , but he 's not er worried about him having the motorbike , no he cos he would have done the same as a er child anyway well things like that , but erm what he 's worried about is that er with Ryan i and the other boy , n not Ryan so much , the other boy does it all the time , they 're churning all the grass up all over there in great big |
| 8 | it 's worth me having a go . |
| 9 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 11 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 13 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 14 | Asking for the appropriate volumes of Bryan 's Dictionary of Painters , so that he could study the entries for these artists , he read slowly through them marking the place he had reached in the text with his forefinger . |
| 15 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 16 | Luke 's hands , still at her hips , pulled her lower body to his abruptly , and it was as if their clothing did n't exist , the outer heat that flowed between them creating an inner one as liquid flame engulfed her loins . |
| 17 | Indeed , utilitarianism and Kant 's ethic of duty for duty 's sake are usually seen as the two great extremes of moral theory , the line between them representing a continuum on which most moral philosophies with a positive theory of what is right and wrong can be placed . |
| 18 | There 'll be no chance for me getting a job . |
| 19 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 20 | Other and if it was n't for for me doing a course next year which would probably preclude me from doing that , I 'd be quite interested . |
| 21 | This will vary greatly between someone reading a novel on a train and someone reading it as part of the study for a PhD thesis . |
| 22 | I was , however , astonished by the Conservative candidate 's comments about my wasting a £500 deposit on the election . |
| 23 | What would be a theme for someone seeking a highly structured environment ? |
| 24 | For someone espousing the virtues of fitness it is surprising to learn that she smokes between 15 and 20 cigarettes a day . |
| 25 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
| 26 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 27 | He wrote as someone perceiving a breakthrough . |
| 28 | First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other . |
| 29 | Is it worth my taking a coat on ? |
| 30 | She was most likely going to fix up about someone shutting the hens up for her instead of him , going to see the other boy . |